Page 60 of Hades

“It’s been a while, stranger. If I didn’t know better, I would think you were avoiding me,” Tara teases, making me roll my eyes.

“Please, we both know I would never ignore you, or any of you. Last I checked, my phone has been pretty quiet.”

Lainey winces. “Sorry, things with the girls have been crazy. This last week was spirit week. Do you know how hard it is to buy neon when it’s not summer?”

“That sounds horrid,” Harlee says as the rest of us nod.

Lainey and Midnight have been together for a while now, and she’s helping him raise his twin daughters. She’s honestly a thousand times better than their birth mother, and it’s clear as day that she loves them like her own.

“Kolby is having sleep regression, and I have no idea why. I’m about to put him in a box and ship him to my dad,” Kaitlyn mutters, not bothering to open her eyes.

The poor woman looks dead on her feet.

“You could just call your dad, and he would come,” Natalie reminds her.

Kaitlyn sighs. “Yeah, but I don’t want him tied up in all of this bullshit, so he’s keeping his distance for a minute.”

Kaitlyn’s dad is the president of a rival MC club in Texas. She and Colt knew each other growing up and had a one-night stand as adults. Only it lasted for more than one night and turned out to be more than either of them thought it would be.

“I feel you, Kaitlyn.” Tara nods.

Kaitlyn cracks an eye open. “You do?”

Tara smirks. “Yeah, Wrath’s been keeping me up real late lately.”

All of us groan and laugh.

Tara and Wrath are known for their antics. Not only did the man buy her a bookstore, but he also has made it his life mission to act out her favorite sex scenes from the romance books she loves.

If I didn’t love her so much, I would be jealous.

I look over at my sister-in-law and point at her. “Don’t mention your sex life.”

Natalie raises her hands but smiles. “I would never.”

“Want to hear about the thing that Bullet likes to do with his tongue?” Harlee offers with a smirk.

“No!” we all say in unison, making Harlee cackle.

Adalyn turns toward me. “Why are we friends with these women again? They always rub it in our faces that they are getting sex consistently and that their men adore them when we are single.”

“I know, bitches. All of them. We should leave and never look back,” I whisper to her.

Adalyn nods. “I could totally go for a beach about now. Maybe the Mediterranean.”

“We could run off to Europe and find someone who owns a castle. Really become the queens we know we are,” I tease.

Adalyn is our newest addition and isn’t an old lady or a sweetbutt. She has been cautious with us, but she’s starting to trust us. I hate what put her here, but know that she has found a forever family. Something she has always wanted.

“Please, you two aren’t going anywhere. You’re stuck with us.” Tara scoffs.

“If you go, though, take me with you?” Rachel cuts in.

Natalie frowns. “Are you not happy here?”

When Natalie officially became my brother’s old lady, she completely redid the sweetbutt system. She wanted to make sure that the women who were entertaining the brothers and under the club’s protection had rights and protection of their own. She about died when she found out the club wasn’t supplying their birth control and they had to pay for it on their own.

Reaper rolled with it, though, and let her take it over. Some of the brothers didn’t like the changes she made, but since then, they have all left or died.